International Journal of Agent-oriented Software Engineering 

About: International Journal of Agent-oriented Software Engineering is an academic journal published by Inderscience Publishers. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Multi-agent system & Agent-oriented software engineering. It has an ISSN identifier of 1746-1375. Over the lifetime, 104 publications have been published receiving 1809 citations. The journal is also known as: Agent-oriented software engineering & Int. j. agent-oriented software engineering.

Developing organised multiagent systems using the MOISE + model: programming issues at the system and agent levels

Abstract: Multiagent Systems (MASs) have evolved towards the specification of global constraints that heterogeneous and autonomous agents are supposed to follow when concerning open systems A subset of these constraints is known as the MAS organisation This article describes a set of computational tools that supports the development and the programming of such systems At the system level, a middleware is provided which ensures that all agents will follow the organisational constraints At the agent level, the AgentSpeak language is extended, using Jason features, so that the agents can perceive and act upon the organisation to which they belong

Web service clustering using text mining techniques

Abstract: The idea of a decentralised, self-organising service-oriented architecture seems to be more and more plausible than the traditional registry-based ones in view of the success of the web and the reluctance in taking up web service technologies. Automatically clustering Web Service Description Language (WSDL) files on the web into functionally similar homogeneous service groups can be seen as a bootstrapping step for creating a service search engine and, at the same time, reducing the search space for service discovery. This paper proposes techniques to automatically gather, discover and integrate features related to a set of WSDL files and cluster them into naturally occurring service groups. Despite the lack of a common platform for assessing the performance of web service cluster discovery, our initial experiments using real-world WSDL files demonstrated the great potential of the proposed techniques.

O-MaSE: a customisable approach to designing and building complex, adaptive multi-agent systems

Abstract: The complexity and scope of software systems continues to grow. One approach to dealing with this growing complexity is the use of intelligent, multi-agent systems. However, due in part to its relative infancy when compared to other software paradigms, the use of multi-agent systems has yet to be used extensively in industry. One reason is the lack of industrial strength methods and tools to support multi-agent development. This paper presents the organisation-based multi-agent software engineering (O-MaSE) methodology framework, which integrates a set of concrete technologies aimed at facilitating industrial acceptance. Specifically, O-MaSE is a customisable agent-oriented methodology based on consistent, well-defined concepts supported by plug-ins to an industrial strength development environment, agentTool III.

Method fragments for agent design methodologies: from standardisation to research

Abstract: The method engineering paradigm enables designers to reuse portions of design processes (called method fragments or chunks in literature) to build processes that are expressly tailored for realising a system that is specific for some problem or development context. This paper initially reports on the standardisation attempt carried out by the FIPA Methodology Technical Committee (TC) and then presents the research activities we did starting from that work; these resulted in a slightly different definition of some of the most important elements of the approach in order to support a multiview representation of the fragment (the views are process, reuse, storing and implementation). The paper also describes the documents we used for representing a fragment and concludes with an example.

PASSIM: a simulation-based process for the development of multi-agent systems

Abstract: This paper presents the Process for Agent Specification, Simulation and Implementation (PASSIM), a simulation-based development process for Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which was obtained by integrating the well-known and established Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation (PASSI) methodology and a Statecharts-based simulation methodology supporting functional and nonfunctional validation of the MAS being developed. PASSIM can be effectively used as an experimental tool in the context of Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) for evaluating the benefits of using simulation for MAS development. To exemplify this process and demonstrate its effectiveness, a case study concerning the analysis, design and simulation of a complex MAS implementing an agent-based e-marketplace is defined and detailed.